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Show Sip. if" WHEN you are laundering delicate deli-cate fabrics so fragile that they .won't take starch, try this: Dissolve a small quantity of sugar in the final rinse water and run the material through that to stiffen it. Adding salt to your starch water on a windy day, helps to keep the clothes starched while the wind whips them around during the drying. dry-ing. If your clothespins have a tendency ten-dency to give way long before their time, treat the pins, while new, to make them last longer. Place in a basin of boiling water and washing soda for 30 minutes, rinse in cold water and let them dry in the sun before using. Linen, which does not take well to commercial bleaches, may be bleached by rubbing with lemon juice. Let dry in the sun. Repeat, if necessary. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Tomato-Cottage Cheese Salad (Serves 6-8) 2 envelopes plain gelatin 2 cans condensed tomato soup 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce teaspoon salt 1 cup large curd cottage cheese Soften gelatin in cup soup; set aside. Heat remaining soup then add gelatin and seasonings. Stir until dissolved. Chill until the consistency of unbeaten egg white; fold in cottage cheese. Pour into an oiled salad mold or individual molds and chill until firm. Serve greens and mayonnaise. Fine fabrics which are difficult to dampen evenly for ironing can be wrapped in a wet towel for this purpose. Let stand in the towel at least 30- minutes before ironing to allow moisture to penetrate. There won't be any pin marks on curtains dried on the stretcher if you go over the marks right after removing the curtains from the rack, with an iron. If you've ever lost buttons during ironing, with the edge of the iron, here's the way to prevent it. Turn the outside of the article, with the buttons against a turkish towel set on the ironing board, and iron on the reverse side. |